October 20, 2021

140: The Cloud Pod Buys all its Synapse in Advance

1 hour 19 minutes

On The Cloud Pod this week, the team’s collective brain power got a boost from guest hosts Rob Martin of the FinOps Foundation and Ben Garrison of JumpCloud. Also, AWS releases Data Exchange, Google automates Cloud DLP, and Azure Synapse Analytics is available for pre-purchase.

A big thanks to this week’s sponsors:

Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.

JumpCloud, which offers a complete platform for identity, access, and device management — no matter where your users and devices are located.

This week’s highlights

AWS announces Data Exchange for Amazon Redshift, which will allow users access to and management of third-party data. Watch out, Snowflake.

Google is making its Cloud Data Loss Protection (DLP) automatic so users no longer have to worry about manually monitoring their data.

Azure has made Azure Synapse Analytics available for pre-purchase for customers looking to manage their analytics workloads.

Top Quotes

“There’s always that line: If you build a module that is very effective for users across the board, regardless of what they’re doing, at some point it just becomes a resource. It’s pretty tough to build complex modules that everybody’s going to use as-is, and not want to end up making their own.”

“I do not envy security people in this current climate. The proliferation of cloud computing, edge computing, has really had to get a lot of creative minds working together to try and secure data outside your four walls of sanctity. … And so it’s good to see big companies starting to chime in and address that, because I think it’s just going to continue to keep growing.”

General News: Hashicorp + AWS = A Match Made in Heaven

At .conf21, Splunk announces a new workload-based pricing model for its smaller customers that will help drive retention. Clearly Splunk has been listening to TCP complaining about its insanely expensive model.

HashiCorp releases the public beta of HCP Packer, which allows teams to track and automate build updates across their packer and terraform workflows.

AWS and HashiCorp are partnering to make developers’ lives easier with new terraform modules for AWS, as well as an API path that will enable users to quickly deploy AWS resources while keeping modules lightweight and composable. Justin is stoked for this!

AWS: AWS Data Exchange is Coming for Snowflake

AWS releases its Security at the Edge: Core Principles whitepaper to help business and technology leaders ensure their cloud network security extends to workloads running on the edge. The paper points out three strategic areas to address: AWS Services at the edge location, AWS security best practices, and additional edge services.

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